Tag Archives: Illustrator

You would think it was simple to extrude a 2D black & white image into 3D space. I tried a number of avenues. They all pretty much have two large steps: 1) Provide a vector file like SVG or DXF and 2) Extrude in a 3D. I tried out a number of 3D modeling programs.…

In the world of art, design, and 3D – there are so many kinds of masks. With Illustrator, I came across two so far. The first is a clipping mask. This is a mask that works off of the object paths/shapes. The second is an opacity or alpha mask. This works off of the colors.…

It appears that using a gradient in Illustrator is not very straightforward. More specifically, trying to activate the Gradient Annotator with the mouse simply did not work for text. Eventually, I found some instructions – the key steps to remember are as follows: Select the desired text. Press / Press Ctrl + / Press . Voila!…

Google fonts is a pretty awesome collection of web fonts. There must be at least 500 of them. Recently, I’ve gone through all of them for a project and, because it is such a time-consuming task, I took note of fonts that could possibly be used for very specific themes. For reference, I am listing…